Tag: Love

• Sermon of September 20, 2015–“Grow Up!”

  Mark 9:30-37 30 They went on from there and passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know it; 31for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, ‘The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise again.’ 32But…

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  September 21, 2015

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  addiction, call of Jesus, child, childhood, David Gushee, Disciples, God the Father, Greatness, Healing, homelessness, Jesus Christ, least of these, life, Love, love of neighbor, love of stranger, Mark 9, mental illness, Missionaries, responsibility, reversal, Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust, Roman Empire, Syrian Refugees, vulnerable

• Sermon of May 10th, 2015–“What’s your Passion?”

  1 John 3:1-10 1See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed.…

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  May 11, 2015

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  1 John 3, advocacy, challenge, children, debt, drive, God’s design, growth, homelessness, Jesus Christ, Justice, lawyer, Love, mid-life crisis, Mike Slaughter, Mission, need, passion, Peter Steinke, Philippines, Stanley Ellison, Transformation, United Church of Christ in the Philippines, volunteerism, Western Seminary

• Sermon of October 26, 2014–“Love’s Redeeming Work is NOT Done”

  Matthew 22:34-46 34When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, 35and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. 36“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”37He said to him, “’You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your…

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  October 27, 2014

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  C.S. Lewis, change, command, Creative Commons License, double love commandment, exercise, feeling, first commandment, hunger, Jesus Christ, law and prophets, like, Love, Marnie Corps, matthew 22, Matthew 22:34-46, neighbor, neighbor love, Pharisees, questioning, washing line

• Sermon of June 22, 2014–“School’s Out!”

  Matthew 10:24-39 24“A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a slave above the master;25it is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher, and the slave like the master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household! 26“So have no fear of…

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  June 23, 2014

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  12 disciples, ascension, Barbara Brown Taylor, Bellaire High School Ohio, communism, conflict, Creative Commons License, Disciples, Discipleship, East Germany, eisegesis, family, forgiveness, Fred Craddock, hate, honor, Jesus as teacher, Lebanon PA, Love, Martyr’s Mirror, Matthew 10, Matthew 5, persectuion, refugees, risk, secret police, secularism, Sermon on the Mount, students, teacher

• Sermon of May 25, 2014–“To Whom It May Concern”

  John 14:15-21 15”If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever.17This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, because he abides with you, and…

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  May 27, 2014

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  1 John 4:10-11, Advocate, ATM machine, Camp Living Waters, children, Comforter, commandments, Counselor, Creation, Emmanuel, god, God for us, God know us, God with us, Harlow experiments, inculturation, Jesus Christ, John 14, Love, Martin Luther, Matthew 18:20, Matthew 28:16-20, missions, Paraclete, parenthood, Relationship, rhesus experiments, Robert J. Wicks, strangers, summer camp, the Holy Spirit, three in one, Trinity, unloveable, unloving

• Sermon of February 23, 2014–“Love Is Where You Find It”

  Matthew 5:38-48  38“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ 39But I say to you, Do not resist an evildoer. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also; 40and if anyone wants to sue you and take your coat, give your cloak…

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  February 24, 2014

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  An Interpretation of Christian Ethics, Atticus Finch, C.S. Lewis, Christian Realism, conflict, double love commandment, duty, Eleazar Fernandez, evangelism, feeling, Harper Lee, Jesus Christ, kinship, labor unions, Love, love command, love of enemies, managment, Matthew 5, maturity, Mere Christianity, muscle memory, obligation, patriotism, perfection, Practice, reaching across the aisle, reasons to love, Reinhold Niebuhr, Sermon on the Mount, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Robinson, Ukraine, Union Seminary in the Philippines, United Seminary, Valentine’s Day, Venezuela

• Sermon for Ecumenical Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014–“Calling the Children Home”

  Isaiah 49:1-7 Listen to me, you islands;     hear this, you distant nations: Before I was born the Lord called me;     from my mother’s womb he has spoken my name. 2 He made my mouth like a sharpened sword,     in the shadow of his hand he hid me; he made me into a polished arrow     and concealed me in his quiver. 3 He said to…

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  January 20, 2014

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  20th Century American History, 586 BC, Babylonian Exile, evangelism, family reunion, food, Garbage Plate, Isaiah, Jesus Christ, Lesslie Newbigin, Love, love commandment, return, Rochester, the great migration, the prophet Isaiah

• Sermon of April 28, 2013–“Grown in Love”

  John 13:31-35 31 When he had gone out, Jesus said, ‘Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. 32If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself and will glorify him at once.33Little children, I am with you only a little longer. You will look for…

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  April 30, 2013

  From The Pastor HCE, Notes From Pastor Hedden, Sermons HCE

  10 Commandments, church, Commands, criminality, cross, crucifixion, Decalogue, Disciples, happines, Jesus Christ, John 13, Love, new commandment, Obedience, Romance, Self-esteem, son of man, theology

• Sermon of December 16, 2012–“Worst-Dressed List”

  Luke 3 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene, 2during the high-priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah…

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  December 18, 2012

  From The Pastor HCE, Hills Church Export PA, Notes From Pastor Hedden, Sermons HCE

  Advent, Bear Fruit, behavior, Black Friday, brood of vipers, christianity, christmas, emperor tiberius, Hurricane Sandy, John the Baptist, Leaven, Love, Luke 3, Mustard Seed, religion, Repentance, theology, wealth

• Sermon of May 13, 2012–“The Law of Love”

  John 15:9-17 15:9 As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love.  15:10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.  15:11 I have said these things to you so that my joy…

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  May 14, 2012

  Sermons HCE

  Commandment, faith, First Responders, god, inspiration, John 15, Love, Mother’s Day, religion